Principal

Curriculum Vitae Johan Pedersen

Degree

  • 2000: Ph.D. in Spanish linguistics, University of Copenhagen

Previous appointment

  • 2001-2004: Assistant professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies.

Current position

  • 2005-: Associate professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies.

Research projects

  • The construction of macro-events: grammar and lexicon – a typological perspective (current project). Abstract .
  • The global and the local perspective – convergence and variation in language and culture (current project, co-directed with post doc. Ken Faro, University of Copenhagen)
  • Participant in MULINCO (Multilingual Corpus of the University of Copenhagen)
    Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies and Centre for Language Technology. Responsible of the Spanish part of the project. Other languages involved: Danish, English, German, Dutch, French, Italian and Portuguese.
  • The Morphological Construction – A Construction Grammar Approach to Spanish Mood (current project)
  • Grammar and Cognition - a textbook project (current project)
  • Construction grammar and Second Language Acquisition (to be continued, depending on funding, co-directed with Teresa Cadierno, University of Southern Denmark).
  • Subject-object identification - the Spanish impersonal se-construction
    • The Spanish reflexive-intensifier construction
  • The Construction of Coherence

Research networks

  • Member of the executive committee of Danish Functional Grammar
    • Participant in the network: Variation and Change in Language.
  • Construction grammar and Second Language Acquisition (with Teresa Cadierno).
  • Participant in the Danish Grammar Network: Ny Forskning i Grammatik.

Invited talks

  • Guest lecture at Stockholm University, 2006: Perspectivas de la gramática construccional
  • Invited speaker for the celebration of the 75. anniversary of the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen. 2006: Sprog, evolution og kognition - et dilemma der peger fremad.

Editorial duties

  • Editor (Spanish Linguistics) of Revue Romane. 2004.
  • Editor (Spanish Linguistics) of Etude Romane. 2003.
  • Member of the board of referees for Revue Romane. 2001-2004.

Ph.D.-thesis evaluation committees

  • Fernando Wachtmeister Bermúdez: la codificación del punto de vista (Ph.D. thesis, Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American Studies, University of Stockholm). 2006. External opponent of the committee.
  • Kim Ebensgaard Jensen: A construction-based Study of English Predicators. Ph.D. thesis, Institute of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark. External opponent of the committee.
  • Henrik Hovmark: Danish directional adverbials and spatial orientation. Ph.D. thesis, University of Copenhagen, Department of Linguistics. President of the committee.

Recent organizational duties

  • Since 2007, Coordinator of Spanish and Latinamerican studies at the Department of English, Germanic and Romance studies, University of Copenhagen.
  • Co-organizer of Ny Forskning i Grammatik (2005), Middelfart.
  • Co-organizer of the conference Culture in Language Learning, University of Copenhagen. 2004.
  • Co-organizer of an international colloquium on Cognitive Linguistics, Århus. 2003.
  • Member of the Executive Committee of the Language-Culture network. 2002-2003.
  • Co-organizer of Ny Forskning i Grammatik (1999), Hillerød.

Miscellaneous

  • External assessor in scientific committee, associate professor appointment at the University of Karlstad, Sweden. 2006.
  • External assessor in scientific committee, associate professor appointment at the University of Karlstad, Sweden. 2007.
  • President of scientific committee, lecturer appointment at the University of Copenhagen, Department of English, Germanic and Romance studies. 2007.